A First Rate Zombie Film

Rating: 7/10 (14 December 2012)

"Jim" (Cillian Murphy) wakes up in a hospital room and finds everyone gone. So he ventures into the street and finds the entire city of London deserted. Or so he thinks. When he walks into a church he is attacked by a zombie-like person from which he barely manages to escape. Suddenly, even more begin to attack him and he is rescued in the nick of time by "Mark" (Noah Huntley) and "Selena" (Naomi Harris). Taking him to a safe haven they explain the viral epidemic which has taken over Great Britain and left the three of them terribly out-numbered. At any rate, rather than giving all of the details to this movie, I will just say that this is a first rate zombie film. Both Noah Huntley and Naomi Harris do an outstanding job as does the director, Danny Boyle. Now, I fully understand that there are a couple of differences with these zombies which contrast with the more traditional view. For starters, these zombies don't stumble along like "normal" zombies. They run. Very fast. They also don't seem to need the mandatory "headshot" that "normal" zombies require. Claymore mines and machine guns seem to do the trick quite nicely. Likewise, while they attack humans, I didn't see them feasting on human flesh so much. But that may have been understood and therefore considered unnecessary to show. Additionally, their ability to infect humans is much faster than usual. Sometimes as quickly as 10 seconds. So in that respect there isn't much response time or waiting around. Still, all things considered I really liked this movie and I think most zombie fans will too.